|
|
| Author |
Message |
| Ribenapigeon |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Ribenapigeon
Super Spammer
Joined: 20 Feb 2012
Karma :  
|
|
| Back to top |
  |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
 |
| stinkwheel |
This post is not being displayed .
|
stinkwheel
Bovine Proctologist
Joined: 12 Jul 2004
Karma : 
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| Ribenapigeon |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Ribenapigeon
Super Spammer
Joined: 20 Feb 2012
Karma :
|
 Posted: 12:35 - 04 Nov 2023  Post subject: |
 |
|
I know it will take time but that's ok its a nightshift time waster project  Its whether its worth ripping to WAV in sound quality terms as WAVs are a lot bigger and essentially the physical CD is an archive of the wav and I'm not planning on binning the actual CD`s. My Fii0 plays FLAC and also my phone. |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| trevor saxe-coburg-gotha |
This post is not being displayed .
|
trevor saxe-coburg-gotha
World Chat Champion
Joined: 22 Nov 2012
Karma : 
|
Posted: 15:41 - 04 Nov 2023  Post subject: Re: Ripping music from CD` Wav or FLAC |
|
|
| Ribenapigeon wrote: | Ive decided to put all my CD`s onto an SSD. IM going to use Exact Audio Copy to do the ripping. I can rip a full fat WAV and a FLAC for putting onto my Fiio audio player but I'm wondering if its basically not worth ripping to WAV as I'm keeping the CD`s so they are the basic archived WAV. FLAC seems to be the choice for compressed files to play on media players, is there any appreciable difference between WAV and FLAC when playing on the media player?
Cheers |
As you'll probably know, the best to suss out exactly how much difference there is between different formats and file types is an A/B switch test. And ideally a blind test, at that. I've done this, years ago, and found that there WAS a noticeable difference between audio signals on a DAT master tape and first generation copies recorded to a CDRW via a HHB Burnit CDR830.
But - firstly, I could only hear the difference by switching from one to the other formats with headphones. Everything in the signal chain was identical apart from the original source (obviously).
However, once the headphones were off and I was challenged to tell one from the other by listening to the signals through the speakers in the room, it wasn't so easy. In fact, iirc, I'm not sure I could.
Iow, the differences were discernible but only under quite specific and dare I say artificial conditions. In the room, where one signal was played - then a few seconds later - the other, it was a lot harder to tell. Hence I decided that the differences were negligible. There was something very, very slightly smoother with the DAT. But you had to be able to switch immediately, from one to the other to tell.
This was all decades ago, though. More recently I had to decide whether I was okay with 99% of my music as mp3s of 320kbps quality or FLACs or WAVs. In the end I just thought fvck it, the 320 mp3s were fine. Easily good enough for car listening, for instance. And probably good enough everywhere else too.
I'm actually in the process of trying to get a lot of tracks in HQ mp3 files - I do a lot of this manually using streamed file converters. I'd previously neglected to pay attention to the quality of the files I was downloading - some were sh1t tbh. I quickly realised I needed at least 320kbps. So had to begin all over again.
https://320ytmp3.info/
As to your specific question of e.g. WAV vs. FLAC, I don't know. It gets subjective quite quickly. I basically decided a fair while ago that the main thing was to just listen to the music because if i was properly in the mood to enjoy it, a decent quality mp3 was easily good enough.
____________________
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125 |
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| WD Forte |
This post is not being displayed .
|
WD Forte
World Chat Champion
Joined: 17 Jun 2010
Karma : 
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| Ribenapigeon |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Ribenapigeon
Super Spammer
Joined: 20 Feb 2012
Karma :
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| MCN |
This post is not being displayed .
|
MCN
Super Spammer
Joined: 22 Jul 2015
Karma : 
|
| Posted: 20:50 - 05 Nov 2023 Post subject: |
|
|
This thread should be in the Geek/Nerd forum. 
____________________
Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN. |
|
| Back to top |
 |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
| Ribenapigeon |
This post is not being displayed .
|
Ribenapigeon
Super Spammer
Joined: 20 Feb 2012
Karma :
|
|
| Back to top |
| |
You must be logged in to rate posts |
|
|
|
Help & FAQs
Search BCF
Members
Groups
Events Calendar
rating
rating